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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Marvelous . . . I just had to be there with the Post cereal heiress through every twist and turn.”—Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls
“New-money heiress Marjorie Post isn’t content to remain a society bride as she remakes herself into a savvy entrepreneur, a visionary philanthropist, a presidential hostess, and much more.”—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code
Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of Battle Creek, Michigan, Marjorie was inspired by a few simple rules: always think for yourself, never take success for granted, and work hard—even when deemed American royalty, even while covered in imperial diamonds. Marjorie had an insatiable drive to live and love and to give more than she got. From crawling through Moscow warehouses to rescue the Tsar’s treasures to outrunning the Nazis in London, from serving the homeless of the Great Depression to entertaining Roosevelts, Kennedys, and Hollywood’s biggest stars, Marjorie Merriweather Post lived an epic life few could imagine.
Marjorie’s journey began gluing cereal boxes in her father’s barn as a young girl. No one could have predicted that C. W. Post’s Cereal Company would grow into the General Foods empire and reshape the American way of life, with Marjorie as its heiress and leading lady. Not content to stay in her prescribed roles of high-society wife, mother, and hostess, Marjorie dared to demand more, making history in the process. Before turning thirty she amassed millions, becoming the wealthiest woman in the United States. But it was her life-force, advocacy, passion, and adventurous spirit that led to her stunning legacy.
And yet Marjorie’s story, though full of beauty and grandeur, set in the palatial homes she built such as Mar-a-Lago, was equally marked by challenge and tumult. A wife four times over, Marjorie sought her happily-ever-after with the blue-blooded party boy who could not outrun his demons, the charismatic financier whose charm turned to betrayal, the international diplomat with a dark side, and the bon vivant whose shocking secrets would shake Marjorie and all of society. Marjorie did everything on a grand scale, especially when it came to love.
Bestselling and acclaimed author Allison Pataki has crafted an intimate portrait of a larger-than-life woman, a powerful story of one woman falling in love with her own voice and embracing her own power while shaping history in the process.
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“This is an absolutely terrific novel. If you want to know more about the twentieth century, it’s all here . . . and if you want to be inspired by a brilliant, gorgeous, and powerful woman, then Marjorie Post fits will fill the bill. . . . Pataki manages to make every chapter in this long and complicated life fascinating. Marjorie’s love life is as enthralling as it is heartbreaking. Her four successive husbands are unequal to the task of truly loving a woman of such wealth and power. She never admits defeat, however, and ultimately embodies the ideal of a true American hero.”—Historical Novel Society
“Allison Pataki takes the reader on a luxurious ride filled with jet-setting locales and opulent mansions, while deftly revealing how Marjorie Post’s humble beginnings fed her desire to become a new kind of heiress, forging her own way through the world and keenly aware of her legacy.”—Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post is a richly detailed and impeccably researched triumph. Historical fiction readers will love this immersive and sweeping tribute to the fascinating Marjorie Merriweather Post.”—Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
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On the flight to their "babymoon" in Hawaii before their first child arrived, Allison Pataki's husband turned to her to ask if his eye looked strange, and then suddenly lost consciousness. After making an emergency landing, they discovered that Dave, a lifelong, healthy athlete and orthopedic surgery resident at Rush Medical School in Chicago, had suffered a rare, and often fatal, stroke. Dave was one of the lucky ones though, and he survived, but the man who woke up from his coma was not the same man Allison had fallen in love with at Yale.
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A Most Remarkable and Inspirational Story
- De Heidi en 06-19-18
De: Allison Pataki, y otros
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The Queen's Fortune
- A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire
- De: Allison Pataki
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
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As the French revolution ravages the country, Desiree Clary is faced with the life-altering truth that the world she has known and loved is gone, and it’s fallen on her to save her family from the guillotine. A chance encounter with Napoleon Bonaparte, the ambitious and charismatic young military prodigy, provides her answer. When her beloved sister, Julie, marries his brother, Joseph, Desiree and Napoleon’s futures become irrevocably linked.
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Fascinating Heroine
- De HistoryNerd en 04-08-21
De: Allison Pataki
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A Dress of Violet Taffeta
- De: Tessa Arlen
- Narrado por: Hannah Curtis
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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Lucy Duff Gordon knows she is talented. She sees color, light, and texture in ways few people can begin to imagine. But is the male dominated world of haute couture, who would use her art for their own gain, ready for her? When she is deserted by her wealthy husband, Lucy is left penniless with an aging mother and her five-year-old daughter to support. Desperate to survive, Lucy turns to her one true talent to make a living. A
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love the narrator
- De Bird Miller en 09-22-22
De: Tessa Arlen
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The Traitor's Wife
- A Novel
- De: Allison Pataki
- Narrado por: Madeleine Maby
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
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Everyone knows Benedict Arnold - the Revolutionary War general who betrayed America and fled to the British - as history’s most notorious turncoat. Many know Arnold’s co-conspirator, Major John André, who was apprehended with Arnold’s documents in his boots and hanged at the orders of General George Washington. But few know of the integral third character in the plot: A charming young woman who not only contributed to the betrayal but orchestrated it.
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Is this a bad elementary school play?
- De Renee en 01-28-15
De: Allison Pataki
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American Duchess
- A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt
- De: Karen Harper
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “Wedding of the Century” to the duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind “the glitter and the gold”.
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Surprisingly interesting life
- De labradoodler en 07-24-19
De: Karen Harper
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An American Beauty
- De: Shana Abe
- Narrado por: Gail Shalan
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm. Even at seventeen, Arabella possesses an unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of struggle and poverty. Collis Huntington, railroad baron and self-made multimillionaire, is drawn to Arabella from their first meeting. Collis is married and 30 years her senior, yet they are well-matched in temperament, and flirtation rapidly escalates into an affair.
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Loved everything about it
- De Leigh H. en 07-10-23
De: Shana Abe
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Where the Light Falls
- A Novel of the French Revolution
- De: Allison Pataki, Owen Pataki
- Narrado por: Bruce Mann
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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Three years after the storming of the Bastille, the streets of Paris are roiling with the spirit of revolution. The citizens of France are enlivened by the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. The monarchy of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has been dismantled - with the help of the guillotine - and a new nation is rising in its place. Jean-Luc, an idealistic young lawyer, moves his wife, Marie, and their infant son from their comfortable life in Marseille to Paris in the hopes of joining the cause.
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An enjoyable listen
- De missgrundy en 01-19-18
De: Allison Pataki, y otros
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The Social Graces
- De: Renée Rosen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 12 h
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1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, women are valued by their pedigree, dowry, and, most importantly, connections. They have few rights and even less independence - what they do have is society. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor - the Mrs. Astor.
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Disappointing Effort
- De HistoryNerd en 05-11-21
De: Renée Rosen
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Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
- De: Renée Rosen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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It’s 1938, and a young woman selling face cream out of a New York City beauty parlor is determined to prove she can have it all. Her name is Estée Lauder, and she’s about to take the world by storm, in this dazzling new novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Social Graces and Park Avenue Summer.
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Lots of fun
- De Robin en 05-01-23
De: Renée Rosen
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The Second Mrs. Astor
- De: Shana Abe
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Madeleine Talmage Force is just 17 when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Jack's mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty and New York's most formidable socialite. Despite their 29-year age difference and the scandal of Jack's recent divorce, Madeleine falls headlong into love. On their honeymoon in Egypt, the newlyweds finally find a measure of peace away from photographers and journalists. Madeleine feels truly alive for the first time - and is happily pregnant. The couple plans to return home in the spring of 1912, aboard an opulent new ocean liner.
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I did not want this to end ...
- De Georgia en 10-11-21
De: Shana Abe
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Becoming Madam Secretary
- De: Stephanie Dray
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she’s not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell’s Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists.
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great
- De S. Alves en 08-23-24
De: Stephanie Dray
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Carnegie's Maid
- A Novel
- De: Marie Benedict
- Narrado por: Alana Kerr Collins
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home.
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Shallow
- De Mary Smiroldo en 06-26-18
De: Marie Benedict
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Astor
- The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
- De: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrado por: Anderson Cooper
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor’s son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society. The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss on the Titanic.
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A family first made, then destroyed by wealth.
- De Barbara W. en 09-23-23
De: Anderson Cooper, y otros
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Curse of Riches
- De: Claire Prentice
- Narrado por: Claire Prentice, Hillary Huber
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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How did the Wendels, one of New York’s most famous Gilded Age families, disappear from history? The Wendels built a fortune from New York real estate, and rubbed shoulders with the Astors, Vanderbilts, and Stuyvesants. But as the 19th century came to an end, the Wendel family tore itself apart. Following six years of painstaking archival research, Claire Prentice has prised open the door of the Wendels’ Fifth Avenue mansion—dubbed “the house of mystery” by the press—to reveal a fascinating and dysfunctional family imprisoned in a gilded cage.
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Kept Waiting for it to be Interesting
- De Mary en 06-23-23
De: Claire Prentice
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A Beautiful Rival
- A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
- De: Gill Paul
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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They could have been allies: two self-made millionaires who invented a global industry, in an era when wife and mother were supposed to be the highest goals for their sex. Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein each founded empires built on grit and determination…and yet they became locked in a feud spanning three continents, two world wars, and the Great Depression.
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Not even if it were free
- De Amazon Customer en 07-06-24
De: Gill Paul
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
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- 09-22-22
Entertaining and Interesting
It’s always amazing to read how the top 1% lives. Marjory Post was an amazing lady who definitely cared about others but could not be described as “down to earth” in her style and taste.
She had an amazing life and a variety of experiences being able to straddle the divide between that of a woman, knowing her role, and a business tycoon at a time when it wasn’t socially acceptable to be that.
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- 04-16-22
Stop Marrying Fools
Great story and proof women need to recognize their strength and talents. Frustrating she kept looking for a man to validate her. She was amazing all on her own!
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- GH_2gether
- 04-11-24
Enough.
I liked the book for about the first half. But after 3 failed marriages and Marjorie NEVER being at fault whatsoever and gloating, gloating , gloating about her enormous wealth and possessions, I finally stopped. The book , read in first person , is obviously Margories account of her life but it is quite obviously that although she was a philanthropist - which she bragged much about - she liked herself way to much and I think in life she was probably quite nauseating !!! Maybe this was the author’s point of the book ?
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- 04-24-22
Beautiful, captivating story!
This book spans many important times in history. It also is a testament to what one person can accomplish in their lifetime. It was a joy to read.
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- nan see
- 10-15-22
Throughly engaging
I have never known the life story of Ms Post. This story tells her young, formative years all the way to her death. I found this to be well formed and the narrative was spot on.
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- MSZ
- 12-14-22
Love this book
I enjoyed this book tremendously and recommend it. I want to learn even more about her.
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- Chris Raven
- 12-12-22
Fascinating story
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Fascinating story, great narration, and a glimpse into a world and time I knew little about.
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- Pandajana
- 01-19-23
Loved the book!
A great story about a well-lived life. Sorry it had to end. Marjorie was very human.
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- Diane Hazel
- 02-09-23
Fabulous!
I will be reading everything by this author. Every detail she included about Ms Post was a clue about the times and about the this amazing woman’s strong character, how she gave and gave and gave. I loved her depth of feeling and even her foibles. We need more works like this. Also, the voices on the audiobook were perfect.
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- Sandra Bishins
- 03-19-23
A Lover of Hillwood learns the history
What a magnificent story. Having been to Hillwood many times, I loved learning more details of MWP’s life. I loved the history behind all the icons, paintings and jewelry. Well narrated also. A pleasure to listen to this book.
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